dactylic

In the following dactylic line its value is that of four short syllables.

It refers to a line consisting of four dactylic feet.

Dactylic hexameter was used for the most serious Latin verse.

The poem comprised two books of verse in dactylic hexameter.

Only about one and a half books (1,127 dactylic hexameters) were completed before the poet's death.

Thus by "a dactylic rhythm" we express a sequence of dactyls.

It is composed of 9,896 lines in dactylic hexameter.

Thus the dactylic line most normally looks as follows:

Dactylic pentameter is a form of meter in poetry.

All feet in the line conform to one of the two patterns of dactylic hexameter.

An English language example of the dactylic hexameter, in quantitative meter:

In ancient literature, heroic verse was synonymous with the dactylic hexameter.

He even occasionally adopted the old dactylic stanza.

Dactylic - three syllables, with the first one long or stressed and the other two short or unstressed.

The poem is divided into 17 books and is composed in dactylic hexameter.

She invented a dactylic metre that became known as Praxilleion.

The poem is not in pure dactylic tetrameter, but catalectic.

The clues are written in dactylic tetrameter, a poetic meter of four syllabic feet per line.

Dactylic pentameter is never used in isolation.

Introduction to the dactylic hexameter for Latin verse.

It often has a dactylic rhythm.

The 50-line epitaph is written in verse, mostly in dactylic hexameter.

A dactylic foot is one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones:

Now a great number, of Professor Longfellow's hexameters are merely these dactylic lines, continued for two feet.

Like Homer, Virgil wrote his poem in dactylic hexameter.